GitHub Takes $100m of Funding The Ruby world celebrates its latest home grown business success, GitHub, who this week announced they've received $100m in funding from Andreessen Horowitz. Will every Rubyist eventually work there? Watch this space. Code Climate (Metrics Service) Is Now...

I'm obsessed with remote pair programming and remote collaboration. I've even given tech talks about remote pair programming . Most teams with which I've worked remotely are small -- usually around four to six team members total -- but for the past 10 months I have remote paired on a ...

Upcoming Changes to Checkout Customization Posted July 11, 2012 by radar Comments A lot of our users have complained about how hard it is to customize the checkout flow of Spree. Some of our users wanted to remove the delivery step when shoppers had only digital goods in their cart. O...

Does Ruby Have Too Many Equality Tests? This guest post is by Eric Anderson , who develops web-based applications for small businesses though his company Pixelware, LLC in Atlanta, GA. He also runs SaveYourCall.com which allows people to record phone calls from any phone without the n...

Posted July 05, 2012 by Andrew Hooker Comments We have just released several new versions of Spree which contain important security fixes. A vulnerability exists in Product Scopes that could allow for unauthenticated remote command execution. There is also a potential XSS vulnerabilit...

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